CDRoller is intended to recover data from defective optical media. It supports practically every type of disc, including CD, DVD, and Blu-ray. Luckily, it can even access data from discs that were not properly finalized. Its recovery method is based on attempting to read the raw data on the media, which explains its high rate of success.
The tool has a quite intuitive interface. After you insert the disc, it guides you through the whole process. Once it identifies the original folder structure, the program lets you navigate through it and select the desired files and folders. Unfortunately, although its trial version lets you view the results of the scan and classifies them according to their possibilities of being rescued, it does not allow saving the data.
Besides its basic recovery feature, CDRoller can also do some other things. For example, it lets you burn the recovered info onto a new disc or save it as an ISO image file. Moreover, it can convert recovered VOB files into MPG video and rip audio tracks from discs. Finally, the tool also supports erasing rewritable discs.
All in all, CDRoller is definitely a great solution when it comes to rescuing the data on damaged discs. Unluckily, some benchmarking results available online report this tool as slightly less competent than the leading product in this field. However, from my personal experience, I must admit that it worked perfectly.
v11.4 [Jan 10, 2019]
- This version introduces the new free options of CDRoller: Create spare files and Repair file. These options are now located in the File menu of program window. Spare files contain error-correction data based on Reed-Solomon algorithm that can be used to verify your valuable files have not been damaged and fix them if necessary. For example, if you have a valuable file on the expensive high-capacity Blu-ray disc (BD-R Quadruple Layer or Ultra HD Blu-ray), even a small damaged area can make a large backup file non-functional. A possible solution is to create spare files while your backup is still readable, keep them in the safe place or write onto new CD or DVD using Burn option of CDRoller. Further, you can recover files with the help of Recover... and Repair file options, using spare files created before.
- Numerous improvements, bugfixes and workarounds added.
